Bad dates.

Sweet dates.

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to another edition of the Bad Dates podcast.

I am your host, Joel Kim Booster.

Today is a very special episode, just family in the studio today.

We are slowing things down, just one- one on one with my good friend, comedian, Emmy-nominated actor from Heathers and Bonding.

You can subscribe to his weekly newsletter, The Abyss, and you can see us performing together Thursday, April 2nd at the Elysian Theater.

It's Brendan Scannell, everybody.

Hi, everyone.

Joel's listenership. I'm so sorry you subject yourself to him so often. Oh, already with the

shade. We've been friends for about 10 years, maybe over 10 years now. I still remember when

I met you, which was I was with Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp walking down the street and you sort of swerved over, pulled over to the side of the road during Riot Fest in L.A. and said, y'all need a ride to the gay bar. And then you drove us to Akbar. And it was, and the rest is history.

That's actually how we used to pick guys up and murder them too. Yeah. Bad dates is a podcast where we talk about. You guest did bad dates. But sometimes I like to switch things up and bring on a very special friend like Brendan and talk about, certainly we'll get into your love life. Maybe you have some bad date stories to share off the fly but we wanted to cover it all today

cover it all it's so nice to visit you at work for the listeners joel is wearing a porn hub

yeah well we are a visual medium now so if you'd like to see what i'm wearing today please check

us out on the youtube page go to the smartlessless YouTube page, like and subscribe. Um, no one, I don't think anyone has yet. So you could be the very first person to do it. First person. So, first subscriber. First subscriber. Subscribers. That's when you get the perks. Um, Brendan, I want, there's like so many things I actually want to talk to you about and that I think our listeners would be interested in hearing about. But let's get to the nitty gritty of the sort of premise of the show, which is you are currently in a relationship right now. Long term. Long term. In fact, I was actually thinking on the drive over here. We've been friends for over 10 years. I don't know if I've ever known you with another boyfriend. Have you had another boyfriend in the time that we've been friends?

Nothing over like six months.

Okay.

Who was the most serious person before your current partner, Joe?

Honestly, Joe was the first really serious person where it felt like, well, we moved in together really quickly because of COVID.

Where I, you know, started, I think a big part of being in a relationship is giving up some of yourself.

And that was always difficult for me is to like fully submit to the idea of being like a partnership.

...